The First American Evangelical and The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 2: Th-O (Theta-Om

The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 2: Th-O (Theta-Om

The First American Evangelical

Name: The First American Evangelical
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Author: Rick Kennedy
ISBN: 9780802872111

A Short Life of Cotton Mather

by Rick Kennedy

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176 pages
Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
14.9 x 22.8 x 0.6 cm

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Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but that picture has mostly come down to us from one unreliable, antagonistic source. This biography by Rick Kennedy, based largely on new research by an international team of scholars, corrects misconceptions of Cotton Mather and focuses on the way he tried to promote, socially and intellectually, a biblical lifestyle. As older Puritan hopes in New England were giving way to a broader and shallower Protestantism, Mather led a populist, Bible-oriented movement that embraced the new century - the beginning of a dynamic evangelical tradition that eventually became a major force in American culture.